Dr Swanson recently published an article in the AsiaGlobal Online digital journal with Dr Yuhei Inoue called: The Tokyo Olympics and Japan’s Quest for Unity in Diversity.
Whenever a country hosts a major sports event such as the Olympics, the organizers highlight the “legacy” of putting on such an expensive extravaganza. The delayed Tokyo 2020 Games were meant to promote the value of unity in diversity among the Japanese people. Early results from surveys conducted by Yuhei Inoue of Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK and Steve Swanson of Deakin University in Australia indicate that, despite the efforts of the hosts to showcase inclusion in the ceremonies and on the playing fields and venues, the pandemic-plagued Olympiad had little social impact among young residents of Japan’s capital city.
The full article can be found here.
Dr Steve Swanson 